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The Coming Campaign
… in planning, long hinted about—is under way. When the goal and “quiet phase” fundraising results are publicly … highest priorities for renewal and the future pursuit of knowledge and education. Evidence of the preannouncement fundraising appears in Harvard’s …
Issue: January-February 2013
Coming Apart Together
… clearly when he first took an interest in words, when the urge—and then the need—to write first grabbed him. It … film explained, was that he’d been reading poetry. “A lot of Sylvia Plath,” McCrae recalls. In a funeral scene, one … are fractured, lines interrupted; sometimes the whole enterprise races to a halt. His poem “Claiming Language” ends this …
Issue: November-December 2018
Stem-Cell Breakthrough in Treatment of Diabetes
… In what may lead to the biggest breakthrough in the treatment of Type 1 diabetes in three decades, Xander University Professor Douglas Melton and colleagues have figured out the …
Toddling Consumers
… Corporate America's pursuit of children has never been so aggressive. With an annual … budget of $15 billion, about 2.5 times more than what they spent in 1992, marketers now bombard kids with ads … million students. In the cafeteria, students see vending machines filled with Coke or Pepsi if one of the soda giants …
Issue: January-February 2005
Milan in the Back Bay
… It was a fluke not happenstance, but the fish—that epitomized our visit to Via Matta, the stylish … package and was sliced open by our waiter to emit a rush of steam infused with fennel, lemon, and black … subtle, simple, fresh seasonings that, in the hands of chef Luis Morales, transformed the flat, plain fish into …
Issue: January-February 2003
"Theater without All the Drama"
… “These shows are funny no matter your age or upbringing,” … Lurtz ’07, who has just finished her term as president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players … have been staging the nineteenth-century collaborations of Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert for 50 years now. In …
Issue: March-April 2007
The Solicitous Solicitor General Returns
… From the first introduction of Elena Kagan, J.D. ’86, the former dean of Harvard Law School who was nominated to the post of U.S. …
Facebook Hires Harvard Grad Who Rose to the Top at Google
… ties even beyond her degrees: she once served as chief of staff to former University President Lawrence H. Summers, during... The online social networking site Facebook announced this … ’91, M.B.A. ’95, will join the company as chief operating officer this month. Sandberg has spent the last six years at …
The First-Generation Gap
… can find students wearing shirts that say “Primus Pride.” They are members of the First Generation Student Union (FGSU), a student … networking and academic workshops; and advocating on behalf of first-generation students. This past spring, FGSU’s …
The Arboretum’s Winterland
… Winter is the best time to get out and see New England’s trees in all … their naked glory. The Arnold Arboretum, open year-round, offers just such forays with “Fall Into Health” (November … Kathryn Aalto reveals the magic, at least in the mind of A.A. Milne, of England’s Ashdown Forest in “The Natural …
Issue: November-December 2015
The Brain-Behavior Link
… work, or a beagle superb at following a scent? Ever since the domestication of a Pleistocene wolf some 14,000 or more years ago, humans have played a decisive role in the evolution of dogs. First bred for tameness, dogs since then have been …
Issue: July-August 2020
The Undergraduate: The Scientist’s Daughter
… My mother has a theory on exactly where she went wrong. We can … brought home an oversized, illustrated children’s anthology of Greek myths. I became obsessed. During long car rides, I … she wants to explain who I am and all the ways I have surprised her. On a weekend, she’ll drive to Cambridge from our …
Issue: July-August 2015
How Measles Destroys Immune Memories
… The measles outbreak in Texas, which has now spread to New Mexico, has infected mainly unvaccinated children. Of 159 cases, all but five were in unvaccinated individuals. … for those who become infected: “exceptionally high rates of co-infections and hospitalizations for bacterial …
For Kennedy School Journals, Policy Beyond the Classroom
… The summer before Juana Hernandez, M.P.P. ’15, arrived at the Kennedy School (HKS), a copy of The Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy ( HJHP ) arrived … School of Public Health. The interdisciplinary focus that arises from editors’ diverse interests, he argues, has …
President Drew Gilpin Faust's Report to the Alumni
… Faust, Harvard’s 28th president, delivers her Report to the Alumni at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. Distinguished guests, … this afternoon. Looking out from this stage, I’m not surprised that our gathering today includes what I’d imagine to …